Tree extractor and carrier



{No Model.)

H. P. LENTZ TREE EXTRAGTOR AND CARRIER.

No. 389,089. Patented Sept. 4,1888.

575 ATTORNEY- NITED STATES n'rnnr Oriana.

HENRY P. LENTZ, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

TREE EXTRACTOR AND CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 383,089, dated September 4, 1888.

Application filed March 30, .858.

To add whom it? may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY P. LENTZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of 3 Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tree Extractors and Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of treecarriers used in facilitating the removal and transplanting of trees; and the objects of my improvements are to combine with the ordinary form of front and rear wagon-trucks suitable trcecarrying frame-work, so constructed and arranged as to facilitate the operation of extracting and carrying trees and loading and unloading the same upon and from said carry ing device. These objects I accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved tree wagon with the wheels removed from one side thereof and showing a tree in position thereon for transportation. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the rear truck and tree-supporting frame or derrick in position for extracting and loading a tree thereon.

Similarletters refer to similar parls through out the several views.

A represents the front and A the rear trucks of a wagon.

B represents a combined truck coupling board and tree-base support, consisting of a strong and wide board having its front end adj ustabl y supported beneath the front axle, a, by means of a vertical screw-threaded bolt, 0, made to extend through vertical bolt-holes formed in the center of the length of the front bolster, (Z, axle a, and board B, and having on its lower end a flanged head, 0, on which said board rests. The upper screw-threaded portion of the bolt 0 is provided, as shown, with a hand-nut, f, adapted to rest upon the bolster (Z, and by turning which the bolt may be raised or lowered to raise or lower the coupling-board, as desired. The rear end of the board B is detachably supported, as shown, beneath the rear trucleaxle, g, which may be of the ordinary form, by means of one or more chains, h, secured at its lower end to said board, and having its remaining end hooked into an n to drop therein.

Serial No. 268,976. (No model.)

eye or staple depending from the under side of the axle g.

I represents an oblong tree'supporting frame or derrick, the side pieces, ii, of which are secured slightly below the center of their length, by boltsj or otherwise, to the rear axle, g, or to a bolster, j, rigidly secured by bolts j to the upper side of said axle, in such position as to bear partially against the upper side of said axle or bolster and partially against the front side thereof. These side pieces, 5, are, as shown, made to diverge outwardly from their front to their rear ends, the latter being connected by a rigid cross-piece, k, and the front ends by a downwardly curved or concave cross-piece, Z. The frame or derrick thus formed is supported upon and against the rear axle at such angle that its lower end or ci-osspiece, It, will rest upon the upper side of the board 13, while its outer or upper end will be elevated above the top line of the wheels. The front or lower end of the frame is detachably secured to the board by means of one or more chains, m, each of which, being secured at one end to a staple projecting from said board, passes over the crosspiece 7c and has its remaining end hooked into a second staple in said board.

The connection between the axle g and frame I is made additionally secure by means of braces 92, each of which is bolted at its central portion to the under side of the axle and has its ends bent upward and bolted to the under side of one of the side pieces, '5, of the frame. Each of theside pieces, 1', has pivoted to its outer side near its lower end a short leg, q.

The operation of my device is as follows: Arriving at the tree which it is desired to extract and transport, the rear end of the board 13 is released from its connection with the axle 5 thus separating the two trucks of the wagon. As shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, a trench is then formed in the earth near the base of the tree and the lower end of the frame allowed The outer end of the frame is then forced upward and forward until its bowed cross-piece Z bears against the tree, in which position it is secured by a rope or chain, Y, to the tree. This movement of the frame will generally cause the wheels p of the truck to be elevated from the ground. The soil about the roots of the tree is then released or re- ICC moved and the tree pulled, by ropes orotherwise, toward the frame, causing the latter to turn back to its original positionand the wheels 1) to resume their bearing upon the ground. The forward end of the frame may then be elevated slightly and supported above the ground by turning downward the pivotedlegs g until they rest upon the ground. The board B may then be placed in its former position beneath the lower end of the frame and se cured as before to the rear axle, the roots of thetree s being allowed to rest upon the board, as shown. 7

The tree may be carried in this position to the point where it is desired to transplant the same, the board B again disconnected from the rear axle, and the roots of the tree allowed to drop into an excavation previously prepared.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the front truck, A, of a wagon, the vertical screw-threaded bolt a, passing through the front axle, and the coupling'board B, its front end adj ustably supported, as described, by said bolt, of the rear truck, A, to the axle of which is secured, as described, the frame I, having pivoted legs q, and crosspieces Z and k, the latter detachably secured to the board B, the rear end of which is supported from the axle g by chain h, substantially as and for the purpose specifiedr, HENRY P. LENTZ. In presence of GEO. B. TRAVEL, G. G. SHEPHERD. 

